The Plankton: Losing my virginity

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I have been unsubtly hinting for a while now but, finally, am going to lay my cards on the table: I have recently had a dramatic — but entirely temporary — crash out of planktonhood.

For weeks, a surprising intimacy with the most unlikely of candidates — namely, Slightly Younger Twinkle — developed. Then, blow me down, it graduated. When I told my Wise Old Aunt, she was entirely unmoved. “It’s called propinquity, darling. Propinquity explains why people have office romances and my friend had an affair with her builder. It is about frequency and narrative, something with which the odd date and evening